An examination of the characteristics and evolution of both Home Economics (HE) and women in development focuses on pivotal issues at the intersection of these two fields. Data obtained from Denmark, the Caribbean, Africa, and the US show that HE was only for girls and focused on domestic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Africa and the Caribbean HE was aimed at training girls as domestic servants. In the last half of the 20th century HE welcomed, and sometimes even required, males to attend classes and the criteria was broadened to include health and consumer education. In many areas HE has improved standards of living and helped to address such important issues as teenage pregnancy, school dropout, and domestic violence.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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365 p., As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late 19th Century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Observes the people, places, legislation and leadership that shaped how these societies adjusted to the abolition of slavery. The two distinctive worlds also come together, as Cuban exiles take refuge in New Orleans in the 1880s, and black soldiers from Louisiana garrison small towns in eastern Cuba during the 1899 U.S. military occupation.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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410 p, Contents: Erotic autonomy as a politics of decolonization : feminism, tourism, and the state in the Bahamas -- Imperial desire/sexual utopia : white gay capital and transnational tourism -- Whose new world order? : teaching for justice -- Anatomy of a mobilization -- Transnationalism, sexuality, and the state : modernity's traditions at the height of empire -- Remembering This bridge called my back, remembering ourselves -- Pedagogies of the sacred : making the invisible tangible
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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283 p, Contents: Reviving Caribs : indegeneity in Trinidad and Tobago and the dialectic of aboriginal presence and absence -- Canonizing the Carib : colonial political economy and indigeneity -- Placing the Carib : the first two resurgences and the "Gens d'Arime" in the nineteenth century -- Writing the Carib : debates on Trinidad indegeneity from the 1800s through the 1900s -- Nationalizing the Carib : the indigenous anchor of a state in search of a nation -- Reproducing the Carib locally : the social organization of indigenous representation in contemporary Trinidad and Tobago -- Representing the Carib : brokers, events, and traditions -- Globalizing the Carib : solidarity, legitimacy, and networked indegeneity -- Reeingineered indigeneity
The presenters discussed topics ranging from democratic reform and transition in Haiti to health concerns in the Haitian diaspora. One presentation by Lunine Pierre-Jerome, Ed.D., titled "Identity Development among Low-Literacy Haitian Adolescent Newcomers: Collective and Integrative View of the Self" was particularly poignant. Dr. Pierre-Jerome's case study explored how low-literacy Haitian adolescent newcomers identify themselves; their perceptions of family, peer relationships, community and schooling; and their opinions about attending a literacy program.
Examines the impact of the U.S. media on gender relations in the Caribbean area. The U.S. media have created a cultural dependency whereby Caribbean people tend to reject their indigenous culture and favor the American culture. The author asserts that Caribbean men behave in a certain manner and contribute to social problems because they have been improperly socialized by the U.S. media. Moreover, the portrayal of sports celebrities has created a feeling of victimhood among blacks.
